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“I’d been out for a walk with Ernie in the pram and when I arrived back home I was getting a few pains. At first I thought it was because I’d been out for a long walk but then I could hardly move.

“I phoned Rich to say, ‘I think you need to get to the airport’.

“As I’d been two days in labour with Ernie, I didn’t realise it was going to be so quick. But within an hour of calling Rich, I couldn’t get up off the floor.

“The firefighters were lovely and beside themselves with excitement as they said they hadn’t been at a birth before but, bless them, they weren’t up to speed with what you do, so they were all flapping.”

Richie, 26, said: “I am really proud of her for doing it on her own. I know she must have been scared but she will never admit it.”